The German exam can be taken at one of our exam partners situated in your area.
Under "Goethe-Institut Los Angeles" you can find exam dates that are offered at our cooperation centers. For the full list of our cooperation centers, please follow the link here.
The Goethe-Zertifikat A1 and all other higher level certificates (A2 to C2) provide suitable evidence of the language skills required for permission to be granted to join your husband or wife in Germany.
Your exam certificate and the results are available within 2 weeks after your exam date if you took the exam at a Goethe-Institut. If you took your exam at one of our external examination centers, please allow 6 weeks.
Recognition of Goethe-Zertifikate for university entrance requirement, for German as a foreign language